Die-ner (Get It?)

A charming wise-cracking serial killer, sets up shop at an all-nite diner. Hoping to lake-out the 3rd-shifters that come in for coffee and pie. A bickering couple comes in and just as he's about to get started, here comes the dearly departed. Now this isn't a barricade the restaurant from the oncoming zombie apocalypse, in fact they don't even lock the doors. instead its a big farce as the couple has to wrap their brains around the fact that their brain eaters in they have to restrain. As they try to un-animate the recently re-animated. They also try and get help. As well as realizing their host is a serial killer who they have to escape from while avoiding the zombies. In one funny scene they ask the killer why he has a bag full of tape and rope? Well it's a tape and rope bag what else would you keep in it?

A serial killer named "Ken" (Joshua Grote) walks into a diner during the late-night shift and kills three people. When two more people, "Kathy" (Liesel Kopp) and "Rob" (Parker Quinn) also come into the diner he decides to kill them as well. But before he can do that a policeman by the name of "Duke" (Larry Purtell) just happens to come in too. So while he is pretending to be a new waiter, all of a sudden the people he killed (and hid away) come back to life as zombies. At this point the film begins to get strange. Anyway, I thought Joshua Grote did a decent job as far as that goes. But the plot appeared to drift rather aimlessly and the film just seemed to lack cohesion. For example, when the zombies were first encountered it seemed that Ken, Kathy and Rob were more surprised than shocked or terrified. Likewise, the zombies should have been more frightening. Anway, when I first decided to watch this movie I thought it was a zombie-comedy. But the humor wasn't well-developed in my opinion. So what was left was a comedy without much humor and a horror film without much horror. In short, I would recommend this to zombie enthusiasts only--as they're probably the only ones who might find this remotely interesting.

First I want to point out the only actor I enjoyed 100%. That was Joshua Grote. Now the rest of the cast was pretty good at their parts. Not all the zombies though, some of the zombies were pretty bad. This film has a lot of dialog in it and Grote is speaking most of it. His character is not all there in the head and he did a great job of acting that way. I enjoyed watching him talk. But too much talking in the film lead to being a little bored. There was a couple gore scenes, but no real excitement. The scare factor was low too. Also there was some things that they touched base on in the film that were never resolved. One important thing had to do with Grote's character and I wish they would of resolved it. But overall it was a fun movie to watch. But it had just as many good moments as bad ones.

Die(ner) is a simple little horror film made for very, very little money. When accepting that, one can find quite a lot of enjoyment out of it.

It's about a serial killer who murders a waitress and short-order cook during the graveyard shift of a roadside diner, only to run into some problems. The first is an arguing couple who come in and want to be served and the second is that his victims are about to come back to life as zombies. Throw in an old sheriff, some wry dialogue, and some originality and you have the recipe for a fun little microbudget horror movie.

The only drawback is, as with most low budget films, the action is low and some of the performances are stiff, but the lead playing the serial killer is quite charismatic. Just give it a chance, especially if you're disillusioned by Hollywood horror movies.

First of all, I don't understand how this movie can end up with "KFZ - Kentucky Fried Zombie" on the movie cover. It just doesn't make sense, and is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I enjoy zombie movies tremendously, and tend to sit down and watch just about anything even remotely zombie. And it is extremely rare that I have to give up on a zombie movie. Unfortunately I had to give up on "Die-ner (Get It?)". Why? Well because of the horrible acting, and the even worse make-up and effects. The zombies in this movie were so bad that I was laughing most of the time. You just got to love the "let's paint their faces gray, but forget about the neck and the rest of the body" mindset. It is just so 70's and 80's, and it doesn't work in this day and age.

The story in "Die-ner (Get It?)", well as far as I got into the movie, then it is about a loner coming into a late open diner and having a conversation with a waitress. But he turns out to be a killer and does what he does best. More late night visitor come to the diner. But those killed just will not stay dead, but come back as zombies.

Zombies? Well, gray face-painted shambling corpses! I am certain that there is an audience out there for these kind of low budget zombie movies. I, however, am just not part of that audience. And I am more than certain that I will never make a second trip back to this movie to finish it. I made it about halfway through and gave up out of sheer boredom and stupidity radiating from the screen.

Yawn!